Electricity transmission has emerged as critical for successfully liberalising power markets. This paper surveys the …

competition law approach for telecoms and electricity. Post-modern utilities like telecoms, in which facilities-based competition … call termination is discussed. Electricity, where collective dominance is more likely, does not fit comfortably into this …-informed manner, as exemplified by the English Electricity Pool. …

Europe is liberalising electricity in accordance with the European Commission’s Electricity Directives. Different … Emissions Trading system could further transform the electricity industry but may be hampered by slow progress in liberalising …

In order to achieve overall economic efficiency, incentive regulation of electricity distribution utilities must …

The paper surveys the literature and publicly available information on market power monitoring in electricity wholesale …

Britain was the exemplar of electricity market reform, demonstrating the importance of ownership unbundling and … subsequent mergers. Competition arrived just as the Pool was replaced by New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) intended to … address its claimed shortcomings. NETA cost over £700 million, and had ambiguous market impacts. Prices fell dramatically as a …

Electricity Trading Arrangements to the former electricity Pool in England and Wales requires some analysis of the relative merits … of uniform versus discriminatory pricing rules, and use of the gas network in Britain and electricity interconnectors … in the electricity industry in England and Wales as well as some of the results to date. We also look at the wider issue …

Merchant electricity transmission investment is a practically relevant example of an unregulated investment with …

The European Commission proposed to reform the Electricity and Gas Directives to improve access to transmission …, increase cross-border capacity, and fully open the electricity and gas markets. The California electricity crisis has weakened … adequate reserve capacity is risky in a competitive wholesale electricity market without suitable contracts, and unattractive …

Modern infrastructure, particularly electricity, is critical to economic development. South Asia, with inefficient and … bankrupt state-owned vertically integrated electricity supply industries, encouraged private generation investment to address … shortages selling power to largely unreformed state electricity boards, exacerbating financial distress. Reforming the SEBs is …